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and i think you're right that people in washington look at yemen and cms and yemen house for a number officials become too hard to do. easiest thing is drones are perfect, so let's do that. i think a very real but unspoken assumption underlying all of this was really brought out over the past month as they went to yemen and back to the united states is that the u.s. seems to believe that this is a war the u.s. can win on its own and i think that's wrong and i think that's a mistake. if this is the u.s. against al qaeda and yemen, if it's framed that way come to seem that way, that's where the u.s. can never win. the only people who ever defeat al qaeda are the yemeni shiites coming in the clerics and so forth. the u.s. can do a lot to help them. unfortunately see right now is the u.s. that is so heavy handedly encouraging that so many strikes and killing so many individuals and yemen, the u.s. is essentially shrinking the space in which individuals can stand up against al qaeda. let me end with one and it goes. there is an anti-al qaeda cleric who railed against al qaeda from the pulp
and i think you're right that people in washington look at yemen and cms and yemen house for a number officials become too hard to do. easiest thing is drones are perfect, so let's do that. i think a very real but unspoken assumption underlying all of this was really brought out over the past month as they went to yemen and back to the united states is that the u.s. seems to believe that this is a war the u.s. can win on its own and i think that's wrong and i think that's a mistake. if this is...
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the lasting legacies of an obama presidency. >> wonderful. take you for that. and we have about 25 minutes for question and answer. you speak into the microphone. >> hello, thank you for speaking. my question is about crossing the aisle. and we want our politicians to be doing math, and i want to hear your thoughts. it is frustrating not being able to connect with republicans and conservatives, especially family members. if you like if we want this, we'd have to know how to do it ourselves. the key to that of empathy and respect. i am a pretty empathetic person, but i have a hard time being apathetic towards people that are homophobic and sexist. so i'm wondering if thoughts are not. >> it is risky. you just have to take the risk that personal conversations. for me, i believe that stepping out and talking to people who i think, you know, might be different from me, is it important to talk to people just like me. having those real conversations and holding the representatives accountable. i do believe that we can do it personally. and it reall
the lasting legacies of an obama presidency. >> wonderful. take you for that. and we have about 25 minutes for question and answer. you speak into the microphone. >> hello, thank you for speaking. my question is about crossing the aisle. and we want our politicians to be doing math, and i want to hear your thoughts. it is frustrating not being able to connect with republicans and conservatives, especially family members. if you like if we want this, we'd have to know how to do it...
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what we need right now is continuation of stimulus. that's what he said when he was standing by obama's side when they extended the bush tax cut. do you agree in the conversation you're having we need to have a grand bargain and need do go in to effect right away. do you agree with in get the grand bargain but delay if for a year or two as some people even in the democratic side of the debate have argued? >> my job is economic policy adviser. i really -- best believing the politic role to someone else. i can tell you as a economist, the right strategy is to get our fiscal house in order. make lasting commitment to show we can do it and do do that. that require additional revenue as well as spending cut and we want to help the economy in the short run. the president proposed fax cuts that would help the economy. the worst kind of stimulus is tax cut for the wealthy. the group that has for the lowest marginal propensity to consume are the wealthy. the congressional budget office last week released a report which concluded that extending
what we need right now is continuation of stimulus. that's what he said when he was standing by obama's side when they extended the bush tax cut. do you agree in the conversation you're having we need to have a grand bargain and need do go in to effect right away. do you agree with in get the grand bargain but delay if for a year or two as some people even in the democratic side of the debate have argued? >> my job is economic policy adviser. i really -- best believing the politic role to...
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he raised the question of north america energy integration, which was absent from the obama campaign. but on the whole, i think that michael is right in the sense that doesn't seem to be much eagerness here for any kind of new economic relationing, except perhaps with mexico mexican d.a., i recall -- canada the first choice for trade representative back in 2009, when he was first elected, decided not to take the job because he didn't thig would happen on trade. and we saw the ratification of colombia agreement and beyond that very little. we have negotiations on the transpacific partnership and but what michael was right on, there doesn't seem to be any great eagerness in lotted latin america for new trade agreement. wasn't doesn't seen brazil or argentina knocking at the u.s. door to somehow deepen their trade relations. so i think that if the americas depends on economic integration, allen, things don't look too good frankly. regarding the i thought part of your question was whether in fact the heavy migration from central america, mexico would shape the way we think about latin ame
he raised the question of north america energy integration, which was absent from the obama campaign. but on the whole, i think that michael is right in the sense that doesn't seem to be much eagerness here for any kind of new economic relationing, except perhaps with mexico mexican d.a., i recall -- canada the first choice for trade representative back in 2009, when he was first elected, decided not to take the job because he didn't thig would happen on trade. and we saw the ratification of...
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so if you were in the white house right now, and you are in president obama situation, what would you do to try to re-create that situation? >> of course, trying to channel president obama, he has just been reelected, he has a mandate. there were a lot of issues that were not very clear. the one about raising revenue was clear. it's not a full program. really the goal has to be to adopt a bipartisan long-term debt reduction program for america. so i made the statement that the president was leaving the little room, which he did, and now i can go to work in a very personal way. and i will tell you respectfully but i think the president, i will put it this way. he reached a conclusion somewhere in his first two years that the republicans were not quite cooperate with him. and i understand why, but i think that he stopped trying too soon. i think this time, with this mandate, he has to channel lyndon johnson. he can't give up and he also has to -- the solution to this is leadership and apolitical backbone and a willingness to take on the groups of the margins of both parties, which drive
so if you were in the white house right now, and you are in president obama situation, what would you do to try to re-create that situation? >> of course, trying to channel president obama, he has just been reelected, he has a mandate. there were a lot of issues that were not very clear. the one about raising revenue was clear. it's not a full program. really the goal has to be to adopt a bipartisan long-term debt reduction program for america. so i made the statement that the president...
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but that might be the right way to think about the u.s.-china relationship in the world. one of the chief characteristics of the moment when president obama and secretary she will be doing within the month and years to come. first secretary clinton said in her speech at the u.s. institute of peace a few months ago, we are interdependent. that's the word she used. our economies are interdependent. china holds $1.3 trillion. u.s. companies have invested in china. two-way trade is well over $500 billion. this is a relationship -- larry summers put it very well. larry who was mentioned earlier today. i've heard him say he could picture a 21st century in which the united states and china prospered for a 21st century which the united states and china did not prosper. but he could not picture a 21st century in which one prospered in the other did not. so i can't we have a fair degree of cooperation and the principal nuclear weapons mainly the iranian and north korean programs. though we do not agree on the proper mix of pressure and inducements. third, we are both watching the a
but that might be the right way to think about the u.s.-china relationship in the world. one of the chief characteristics of the moment when president obama and secretary she will be doing within the month and years to come. first secretary clinton said in her speech at the u.s. institute of peace a few months ago, we are interdependent. that's the word she used. our economies are interdependent. china holds $1.3 trillion. u.s. companies have invested in china. two-way trade is well over $500...
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they believe the obama administration should have known right away. this is not a spontaneous attack, not part of the protest, for example. they want to understand who knew what when. what does the president know about the attack? what is his national security team now? now they want to know who knew about the securities and the lead up to the attack because there were people in tripoli and libya saying that there wasn't enough security concerns because of the things going on in libya. >> mccain, graham and india yesterday made remarks about u.n. ambassador susan rice. what did they say in what is it mean in context context of the benghazi attacks? >> well, basically what they said is they don't trust her. they said she should have known better that you say five days after the attack but it looks to be a spontaneous response to anti-muslim video. they said she should have known that it is clear, that there is organized element that looks like a terrorist attack in the she served as fondness for obama's political gain to defend the white house. of cour
they believe the obama administration should have known right away. this is not a spontaneous attack, not part of the protest, for example. they want to understand who knew what when. what does the president know about the attack? what is his national security team now? now they want to know who knew about the securities and the lead up to the attack because there were people in tripoli and libya saying that there wasn't enough security concerns because of the things going on in libya. >>...
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etc., right? the issue isn't whether he supports all of those, it's what is he really willing to go to the mat for, right? and i think what we face on the politburo standing committee may be a lot of people in favor of reform, but we don't have a clue as to whether they're prepared to go to the mat for the same reforms, right? and, therefore, whether they can reach agreement on tough decisions where they, with an agreed-upon priority for those decisions. the candidates who did tip their hands as to what changes they would like to see did not make it onto the standing committee. li, early on, yong and -- [inaudible] sixth, factional ties. ing cheng gave us information on them. i think they do not get you very far in anticipating substantive positions and priorities. that's a level of detail that broad background relationships and associations with various top people over a period of years doesn't necessarily get you to. but substantive positions and priorities are very important for anticipating wh
etc., right? the issue isn't whether he supports all of those, it's what is he really willing to go to the mat for, right? and i think what we face on the politburo standing committee may be a lot of people in favor of reform, but we don't have a clue as to whether they're prepared to go to the mat for the same reforms, right? and, therefore, whether they can reach agreement on tough decisions where they, with an agreed-upon priority for those decisions. the candidates who did tip their hands...
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what is the right way forward in our relations with china at this time? what's the right thing to do? >> one, i think you have, and you all know this, you know. what you hear from barack obama or mitt romney, the candidate, is going to be different than what you're going to hear from barack obama for president, i would have heard with romney for president. that's just the way of campaigns, and you all know that. i think you have to think of china in two ways. and one was come it is sort of summed up. i had a meeting in beijing a couple weeks ago and i met with a man named john who will be the premier of china. so he's talking in chinese, very interesting man. and he says something in chinese and the translator translated, america and china are not rivals. i thought well, that's interesting. and he stopped the translator and said no know. i didn't say we were not rivals. we are rivals. but i said we're not necessarily on the opposite side of the table. and i think he captured something very important there. i think the way you need to take about china is t
what is the right way forward in our relations with china at this time? what's the right thing to do? >> one, i think you have, and you all know this, you know. what you hear from barack obama or mitt romney, the candidate, is going to be different than what you're going to hear from barack obama for president, i would have heard with romney for president. that's just the way of campaigns, and you all know that. i think you have to think of china in two ways. and one was come it is sort...
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to the feverish right, it revealed obama as a eurosocialist radical, and republicans never explained how the 715 million tax cut in spending stimulus that even paul ryan supported was good public policy while obama's $787 billion tax and spending stimulus was freedom crushing statism and death of the american free enterprise, but, you know, that's the beauty of being in the minority. in reality, the stimulus was really early evidence thatc'Ñ oa was pretty much what he said he was, a data oriented left the center technicrat, a change the system outsider, govern to work the system insider. the first evidence that despite the flowery talk, he understood that bills that don't pass congress don't produce change. the stimulus is producing change. the wrap on obama was that he was a words guy, but he's more of a deeds guy. you know, it's not producing perfection, but making things better and better is better than worse. before the stimulus, 20% of the doctors used the lek tropical records. it'll reduce cost, improving care. it directed 7 million americans out of poverty reducing poverty fo
to the feverish right, it revealed obama as a eurosocialist radical, and republicans never explained how the 715 million tax cut in spending stimulus that even paul ryan supported was good public policy while obama's $787 billion tax and spending stimulus was freedom crushing statism and death of the american free enterprise, but, you know, that's the beauty of being in the minority. in reality, the stimulus was really early evidence thatc'Ñ oa was pretty much what he said he was, a data...